adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a suasive manner; so as to persuade.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. III. ii. Let a true tale, of his Majestys wretched pecuniary impossibilities, be suasively told them.
1871. T. Hardy, Desperate Remedies, II. 134. You must remember, she added, more suasively, that Miss Graye has a perfect right to do what she likes with her ownher heart, that is to say.
So Suasiveness.
1727. Bailey, vol. II.
1885. Homilet. Rev., June, 481. The leading examples of the early style [of preaching] characterized by much unction and suasiveness.